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Goat Gland Specialist. George Brent Detractor. Crate Digger. Retired Cigarette Lender.
Mae West takes part in an impromptu jam session with musicians Joe Bohan and Bill Harty in 1937.
23.11.2025 04:50 β π 38 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1#BOTD Boris Karloff retocado por Karl Freund y Jack Pierce durante el rodaje de The Mummy (1932).
23.11.2025 06:04 β π 24 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0Photo by Tokyo street photographer Tatsuo Suzuki
23.11.2025 03:11 β π 41 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Wish the director had left it ambiguous if anything supernatural was going on. Watching a dog watch its beloved owner wither away in a creepy old house is more than frightening/gripping enough on its own. All the jump scares, bad CGI, and cliched horror imagery just take away from the experience.
22.11.2025 19:50 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Directed and co-written by Eiichi Yamamoto - BOTD in 1940
CATHY by Cathy Guisewite debuted in newspapers #OTD in 1976.
It ran until 2010, was collected in more than 20 books, and inspired 3 animated TV specials and tons of licensed products! Ack! #ComicStrip #Comics
Released 46 years ago today
Metal Box, the second studio album of Public Image Ltd, featuring the single "Death Disco (Swan Lake)"
Public Image Limited - Death Disco - Top of the Pops
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #publicimageltd #PiL #metalbox #history #punkrockhistory #otd #postpunkhistory
Anna May Wong holding a cat in a publicity still for her final film, PORTRAIT IN BLACK (1960)
#Caturday
Poster features a painting of a candle with a furry tail for a wick.
Polish poster for THE DEVIL (1972)
Written and directed by Andrzej Zulawski - BOTD in 1940
Color photo of Sophie Marceau lying prone in a red dress.
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989)
Starring Sophie Marceau
Written and directed by Andrzej Zulawski - BOTD in 1940
French poster for THE KILLERS (1964)
22.11.2025 17:26 β π 35 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0Glenda Farrell holding a pair of cats
#Caturday
I've loved this scene ever since I first saw it decades ago. It's Lavant and Carax at their best.
23.11.2025 03:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Mae West stands behind a mannequin made to her measurements. The labels read; Kate Smith - large; Mae West - perfect 36; Miriam Hopkins - boyish. (Circa 1933)
23.11.2025 00:00 β π 34 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0my favorite scene, lost count of how many time I have watched it π€ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-U...
23.11.2025 02:56 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Andrzej Zulawski directing Romy Schneider during the making of THAT MOST IMPORTANT THING: LOVE (1975)
Zulawski was BOTD in 1940
Japanese poster for POSSESSION (1981)
Starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill
Directed and co-written by Andrzej Zulawski - BOTD in 1940
Lobby card features a color photo of Geraldine Page holding a wounded Clint Eastwood.
Geraldine Page and Clint Eastwood in a lobby card for THE BEGUILED (1971)
Page was BOTD in 1924
British poster for LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF (1991)
Starring Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant
Written and directed by Leos Carax - BOTD in 1960
Mauvais Sang (1986)
Thrilling and poetic science fiction film in which a young man is recruited by a pair of crooks to help them break into a lab and steal a vaccine for a STD that is transmitted by loveless sex
Written and directed by Leos Carax - BOTD in 1960
Black and white photo of Tina Weymouth playing bass on stage.
Tina Weymouth - BOTD in 1950
22.11.2025 15:57 β π 42 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1Lolita (1962)
Scrooge (1970)
The Wiz (1978)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Images from films shot by cinematographer Oswald Morris - BOTD in 1915
Lolita (1962)
Scrooge (1970)
The Wiz (1978)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
black and white photo of Rodney Dangerfield shaking hands with Elvis Presley, circa 1969
Saturday mood
22.11.2025 15:29 β π 57 π 13 π¬ 2 π 2A pedestrian bridge between a parking garage and a Home2 Suites by Hilton in center city Philadelphia
This pedestrian bridge between a parking garage and a Home2 Suites by Hilton does *not* need to go this hard.
21.11.2025 17:58 β π 581 π 93 π¬ 14 π 16Crank 2 is one of the only American movies that comes close to capturing the insanity of a Story of Ricky or Tetsuo the Iron Man. You know that wild first ten minutes of Miikeβs DOA before the film slows waaaayyy down? Thatβs this entire movie.
21.11.2025 15:43 β π 45 π 3 π¬ 5 π 0Leos Carax & Juliette Binoche
22.11.2025 13:46 β π 38 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Isabelle Adjani
Β© Claude Azoulay
Wish the director had left it ambiguous if anything supernatural was going on. Watching a dog watch its beloved owner wither away in a creepy old house is more than frightening/gripping enough on its own. All the jump scares, bad CGI, and cliched horror imagery just take away from the experience.
22.11.2025 19:50 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Now watching
GOOD BOY (2025), a canine-centric horror movie in which a brave dog and his sickly human best friend move into a spooky house in the middle of nowhere
Directed and co-written by Ben Leonberg
Starring Indy